I am creating a workbook to analyze potential stock investments. I now have 10 macros that create a query and return data to the workbook from 10 unique URLs, each URL uses the company's stock symbol as part of the URL, such as
http://finance.yahoo.com/q
where IT is the stock symbol.
What I would like to do is enter a stock symbol in cell E5 on a worksheet called "Ratings", and then run a macro that runs the 10 individual macros mentioned above, as well as several other procedures to generate the analysis.
Each of the 10 macros are the same except for the URL.
Thanks for your help
Below is a copy of one of the macros:
Sub majorholders()
'
' majorholders Macro
' Macro recorded 10/18/2004 by Michael J. Palma
'
'
'Setup worksheet
Sheets("majorholders").Sel
Cells.Select
Selection.clear
Selection.QueryTable.Delet
' Range("A:A,B:B").Select
' Range("B1").Activate
' Selection.Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
' Range("A1").Select
' Selection.EntireColumn.Ins
' Selection.EntireColumn.Ins
Range("A1").Select
'
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Ad
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "mh?s=IT"
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.BackgroundQuery = True
.RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone
.WebTables = "yfncsumtab"
' .WebTables = "25"
.WebPreFormattedTextToColu
.WebConsecutiveDelimitersA
.WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
.WebDisableDateRecognition
.WebDisableRedirections = False
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
End Sub
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Hi,
If I understand your question correctly,
Change:
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Ad
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "mh?s=IT"
to:
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Ad
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "mh?s=" & Range("E5")
BFN,
fp.
JonoBB- I am getting problems with your macro when I try an copy it into the other macros that retrieve data from other web pages. This involves 2 changes:
1- changing the URL line from
strShareUrl = "URL;http://finance.yahoo.
to
strShareUrl = "URL;http://finance.yahoo.
(This example is changing the Yahoo page from "major holders" to "key statistics")
2- changing the target worksheet to the appropriate worksheet for the macro, such as:
from- Sheets("majorholders").Sel
to- Sheets("keystats").Select
FP- if you could answer the question I asked above i would appreciate it
Mike
FP- I think your solution was simpler (thanks JonoBB for your help) and works fine, I answered my first question by inserting worksheets("ratings"). But now I ran across another problem. Three of the web pages I want to query have a different URL structure.
Most of the URLs are constructed as:
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "ae?s=IT"
Your soluiton worked fine:
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "ae?s=" & Worksheets("ratings").Rang
But the problem arises when the URL is constructed like this example:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q
where "IT" is the stock symbol that will change, and the URL ends with "&annual"
So how can we take your solution and apply it to this URL construction?
Here is how the macro code looks now:
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "is?s=IT&annual"
thanks
Hi,
Try:
...
"URL;http://finance.yahoo.
.Name = "is?s=" & Worksheets("Ratings").Rang
BFN,
fp.
You're very welcome.
Thanks for the points/grading.
BFN,
fp.
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by: JonoBBPosted on 2004-11-08 at 01:02:40ID: 12521622
This should work.
Your question is pretty vague about how the 10 different stock prices are input, so this will only work for one stock price.
'Setup worksheet
Dim strShareCode as String
Dim strURL as String
'Get the share price into the string
Sheets("Ratings").select
strShareCode = Range("E5")
strShareUrl = "URL;http://finance.yahoo.
Dim strSharePrice as String
Sheets("majorholders").Sel
Cells.Select
Selection.clear
Selection.QueryTable.Delet
' Range("A:A,B:B").Select
' Range("B1").Activate
' Selection.Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
' Range("A1").Select
' Selection.EntireColumn.Ins
' Selection.EntireColumn.Ins
Range("A1").Select
'
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Ad
strShareUrl, Destination:=Range("A1"))
.Name = "mh?s=" & strShareCode
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.BackgroundQuery = True
.RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone
.WebTables = "yfncsumtab"
' .WebTables = "25"
.WebPreFormattedTextToColu
.WebConsecutiveDelimitersA
.WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
.WebDisableDateRecognition
.WebDisableRedirections = False
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
End Sub